I want to install Red Hat 9 on a compaq presario laptop. When I start the installation, it hangs. What to do about it. Is any other distro recommended for laptops?

check ur CDs for media
try out with different CDs
there should not be any problem with redhat 9.0 on compaq

also ,mandrake 10.X is good

regards

I don't know about Red Hat but there is an issue around the firewire and legacy USB support options in the BIOS that can cause a hang. I had problems installing SUSE 9.1 on my Compaq Presario 2500 and disabling legacy USB support appeared to help... however I'm very new at this so I suggest you do your own research! Basically it's possible to get past this issue one way or another.

PS SUSE 9.1 works ok on a Presario 2500 with the exception of the IR port, which I haven't been able to get working yet. However I can't see why Red Hat shouldn't work for you either???

Regards, James

as far as i know compaq people test their hardware for linux support with redhat Linux
so u should not have any problem with that


regards